shoaly

American  

[shoh-lee] / ˈʃoʊ li /

adjective

shoalier, shoaliest

1. full of shoals or shallows.

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Etymology

Origin of shoaly

First recorded in 1605–15; shoal ¹ + -y ¹

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Example Sentences

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shoaly

They swung round a point and threaded the channel that led among the shoaly waters of Musky Bay.

From The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn

Swamps would, perhaps, better describe these shoaly sheets of water, which in summer so swarm with mosquitoes that deer and even the natives sometimes die from their attacks.

From From Paris to New York by Land by Harry De Windt

The watchful hero felt the knocks, and found The tossing vessel sail'd on shoaly ground.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

Then the only way we could get off was down over a rough, shoaly slough, where she went like a bucking broncho.

From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott

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